CSS Newbie
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Blog at WordPress.com. — Theme: Connections by http://www.vanillamist.com
http://blog.kothea.comOK. I sort of like my theme. I want to change it a bit (eg colours/font) eventually and appreicate that I need to self host and do CSS etc etc.
As a first stage I want to convert my web site to a similar look and feel as CONNECTIONS and then at a later date migrate the blog across to it and self host it.However my web site MUST have the correct fonts and colours and a more elaborate menu.
so my question is “how easy for someone who is only a bit technical to copy the CONNECTIONS CSS style sheet and modify its look and feel for my web site using something like frontpage or web expressions”.
Is this a biggie or might i be able to sort it out with a few days of thought and planning?
many thanks
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am trying to do this using CSS preview as a test.
if anyone is interested it gives unexpected results.
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Follow this advise and things will be a lot easier:
There is no trick. But doing CSS requires an understanding of the markup (xhtml). There is no way round that. The CSS applies styles to stuff. To what stuff depends on the markup. So number one read the source (View Source). Get used to it. Feel comfortable with it. Two. Understand what the heck selectors actually are. Different cats of selectors behave in different ways. SO: this is counter intuitive. To understand the CSS do not start in CSS. Start in the xhtml. Then see how they relate. Its all there. :)
The404It doesn’t matter what tool you use (i.e. Dreamweaver, TextWrangler, Notepad, Frontpage, etc.), if you don’t understand/know the Markup of a website, you’ll be shooting in the dark.
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I’m learning CSS & XHTML as well and I came across this great beginners video that explains in plain english for CSS newbies video link » #58: HTML & CSS – The VERY Basics
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